more humanity here than in eli roth's whole filmography.
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Thanksgiving 2023
the critique of american bloodlust and misguided zoomer activism is hardly scathing coming from a dude who stands with the idf on tiktok. yet roth's misanthropy and the film's tendency to mock and degrade everyone in its path lends itself well to this specific mean brand of slasherβvery much a "harry warden get ipad" situation with steely platinum dunes flourishes and the most extended use of cleave gaggage since the 90s. numerous murder set pieces of the variety one wouldβ¦
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The Love Witch 2016
Yeah, okay, Anna Biller.
I'll stand by the opinion that this is mostly interesting because of its ability to elude easy classification. Everything in this film seems to point toward something subversive going on, but if you read Biller's own commentary, it becomes apparent this is exactly what it seems at first glance: an earnest throwback to sixties cinema that is so exacting it even replicates the era's problems with gender essentialism. Biller doesn't subvert any of this because sheβ¦
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